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Show i - v 4 I -- j ui :i: V i: ,, - ' ; , ' H- ... I and they had come oat of the hr. ASPARAGUS IS HARDY business confident that henceforth any rate, they could dispense with English troops and take1 care of thepv aelvea. ... Select Spot Where Plant Can Re vThey had lost both: their fear of the ; main. Permanently. French and their awe Of the English. 'Twas hardly an opportune time for statesmen In London to make a. new and larger place for England's at&hoiv Land Should Ba Deep, Rich, Fertile, Moist and Cool, With Warm ExpJty in America, and yet that wae what immediately attempted. in Rows the they osure-Plant Save Chatham and llurke and a fet , as Same Corn, Etc. discerning men wh had neither place npp power' there was no longer any One of the best and easiest grown one In England who knew, thougli It a our perennials is the as- were never so vaguely, the real temparagus iplAut, says Greens Fruit per and character of the colonials. Grower... Jt can bestarted either from 'Twas matter of cuulipon knowledge seed or from plants. If one wishes to' and comment. It Is truethat men of raise to sell, plant the seed, plants Mahsachusetts.were beyond all reason but If Is wahted for home asparagus Impatient of command or restraint, or market use it is better to set out affecting an Independence which was yearling seedlings. hardly to be distinguished from conIt Is important In laying out the astumacy and insubordination; hut what paragus plantation to select a place ground was there to suppose that a where it ckn remain permanently for like haughty and ungovernable spirit If taken proper jare of the plantation lurked In the loyal and quiet south, or will last for twenty years. The old among the prudent traders and'phleg-matlIdea was the asparagus bed." The farmers who were making the new is to plant. In rows the same as middle colonies so rich, and so regard- that for thfr markeXgar-- 1 ful of themfielYei tn every hblnt 6fTdea thefcultlvatlon can be done by gala or interest? horse. The land selected should be a Hands Off," Jhs British Policy, fertile, moist and cool soil, Statesmen ' of an elder generation deep, rich, a exposure, a gradual waym having had had a sure instinct what must be IT southern preferred. being slope the feeling of Englishmen In America, land is originally hard and coarse, the and had- -, with a wise and salutary neglect," suffered them to take their ow n way In every matter of -- - . Gunston Mali or Mount Vernon two or three times a fveek to warm their blood In the hale sport, and dine together afterwards a cordial company of neighbors, with as many topics f good talk as foxesJo rurrko cover'. The hunt went .fastest and most Incessantly when lord Fairfax cam down from his lodge In the valley and s Joined them together In field and at the table. . Washington loved horses and dogs with the heartlest sportsman of them Installment 7 The soldierly young planter gave . those ho k n e w h I m bus L a whIUXs those who met him but to pass, the impression of a singular restraint and self command, w hich lent a peculiaf dfgnity aud charm- to his speech and w - They deemed him deeply pasytmrate; amty et could never remember, to have seen him In a passion-. The Impression, Was often a wholesome check upon strangers, and even nxui frlejnls aiul .neighbors, wrha impose upon him. Terrible In His Wrath. No doubt he had given, way to bursts oh passion often enough In famp and upon the inarch, when .Inefficiency. JiHobedleuce, or cowardice angered him hotl,and of a sudden, 1 here .w ere stories be heard of men who had reason to remember bow terrible he could be In is wrath. Hut he had learhed. in the vefy heat . and discipline of siuMi scenes, hpvr he must; curb andguard friniBelf against, surprise, and it was no rkiubt trials of command auade In his youth that had given him The flue men noted In him now. He had been bred In a strict school of manlier at Belvolr atid Green w ay court, and here at his own Mount Vernon In the old days, and the place must have seemed. to him fulfof the traditions. of whatsoever was Just and hones! and lovely and ofgood report as he looked back to the time of his gentle .brother. It was still dangerous to cross or thwart him. Indeed, Poachers might look to be caught and soundly thrashed by the master him-- . self if he chanced their way. Negligent, overseers might expect sharp penalties, and unfaithful-contracta. si rict-- a r comi ling i sary WOT k went w rong by their fault. Always Open to Conviction., lie was exacting almost tp the point of hatshness in every matter of just right or authority. Hut he was open and wholesome as the day, and reasonable to the point of pity in every affair of humanity-- , through It all. Now 'll was. "my rascally overseer, Hardwick," In his diary, when certain mares were sent home '"scarce able lo highlone; much less to assist n the business of Ihe plantations;" but not a month later It was "my worthy overseer, Hardwick, tying In Winchester of a broken leg." It was not tn Iila way to add anything to the penalties of nature. A quiet simplicity of life And a genuine love of real sport rid him of morbid humors AH up and down the English world, while the eighteenth century lasted, gentlemen were commonly to be found drunk after dinner efoutside New England, where-thficient Puritan church had fastened so singular a discipline In manners upon carriage. wo!ilL-haveouKht-t- ail. aside. , My indulging myself In a trip to England depends Upon so many contingencies, w hich, In all may never occur, that I dare not even think of such a gratification." Hut the disappointment bred no real discontent. r There could be no better air or company to, come to maturity In than were to be had there in Virginia, if a young man were poised and master of Ve have few things-herhimself. striking to European travelers (except our abundant woods)," he professed, when ho wrote to his ktlismkn,; Richard Washington, in England'; but a welcome reception among a few- friends, and the open and prevalent, hospitality of the country; but it was lsjand that bred men, and men of affairs, Hn no common fashion. 4.. Unrest In; the. Colonies. trawTrflpr ttle quickening of pulses that had come with the French war, and Its sweep 6f , contiforces nental, even of International, across the colonial stage, hitherto Bel only for wtty and sectional affairs. The colonies had grown and restless as the plot thilkened and thrust them forward to a role of con sequence In the empire such as they had never .thought to play, and the events which succeeded hurried them Jo a quick maturity. It was a season a young man was sure to ripen in. slid there was good company. The house of burgesses was very qutt the year Washington first took his place- in it and stood abashed to hear himself praised; but before Mr. Robinson, Its already veterax speaker, was dead, a notable change had set in. At Odds With Parliament. Within five years, before the country on tire 3t. Law repce and the lakes was well Cut of the hands of th iTench, the paillament In England had entered upoiF'nieaAurea of government prob-ability- , . . e , him'-alway- - . . - res -- g' n e ors - - His own mounts could nowhere be bettered In Virginia,' There was full blood of A.raby .ln his noble Magnolia, andas good hunt iug blood 'as was to bo found. In' the colony In his Hlue-skifind Ajax, Valiant and Chinkllng. Ilia hounds ' he bred "so flew'd, so fajuled," so thatched In speed and habit, that they kept always tune and pace together lq the field. "A cry more tuneable has never, holla'd to, nor cheered with horn," than, theirs when; they , were let spend ' their months till echo replied as If Another chase wag In the skies." Twas first to the stables for In the morning, and then to the kennels. It had been hard and anxious work for. Washington to get his affairs ln to prosperous- shape again when the war was over, and those long, h opclesa sum mer on-t- he s t rie ken frontier. Stock, buildings, fences everything had to be renewed, refitted. repaired. j For the first two or threw yenrs there were even provisions to buy, so slow was the place to support itself oiice more. Not only all his own ready money,, hut all he- - got by .hts marriage, too, and more besides, was swallowed up, and he found himself In debt before matters were finally set to rights and profitable crops made and marketed. Hut, the thing once done, affairs cleared and became easy as If of their own accord in the business of the estate. A Mast e of .Men. The men he had to deal with pres ently knew their master; the young planter had matured his plans and his discipline.' Henceforth his affairs wefa ' - ;. runnlngwaBOply.for'Ibosewlhodared. A judge of Horseflesh. , - to believe, with many shopkeepers and tradesmen In London, he wrote-blun- t when they ly Jo the Messrs oCary, know goods are bespoken for exportation, to palm sometimes, old, and sometimes very slight and Indifferent, good upon' us, taking tarr at the same time-t5a- tf vanceJ he prlee, and he wished them Informed that their distant customers would hot be so duped. Longed to Go Abroad. He longed once ad again to be quit of the narrow life of the colony, and stretch himself for a little upon the But brosdejr English sjtgge at home. I am dled bjT the- - leg," he told his e J) r- . deer with George Mason on the broad forested tracts .round Gunston Hall, and liked often to take gun or rod w hen the after lesser-gamdays fell dull ; but best of all he loved a horses hack, and the hard ride for hours together after the dogs and a crafty quarrya horse It put a man to his points to, rtde, a country where the , solf-poisf- ' .lChacL..agreat-gusto-fritalktn- o In the fashion ; and the master MbunrVerjion would have deemed It an Impropriety to be less careful than his neighbor fi. lesa well dressed than his station and fortune warranted. He watched the tradesmen sharply: " TIs, a custom, I have soma., reason te for-day- -- and - r- - - e sodctyand'lTg1n1atrrgen-tleme- whtchweenjPdTiiealTttirileltberateJiur n , c ' ... : ""Though ministry after ministry had asserted a rigorous and exacting supremacy for the mother country In every affair of commerce, and had determined, as they pleased w hat the colonies should be suffered to manufacture, and how they should be allowed to trade w ith w hat merchants, in what commodities, in what bottoms, within what limits they had never theless withheld their hands hitherto from all direct exercise of authority In the handling of the Internal affairs of tha several setClemen's, had given them lea e aliiwys to originate their ownTiegislation and their own measures of finance until seltgovxrnnienLj had become with tl.em a- thing as if of immemorial privilege. - A Shrewd Statesman Sir William Keith, sometime governor of Pennsylvania, had suggested to Sir Rolert Walpole that he should ra!serevehue 7rom jho colonies. What!1 exclaimed' that, shrewd master of men. "1 have Old England set against me. and do you think I will have New England likewise? " Hut men had come into authority In England now whoiacked this stout sagacity,. and every ilemer.t of sound discretion. - English arms and English n pr ey, they could say, had swept the French powrer fromAmeyica in order that the colonies mlghl o longer suf- fer menace or rivalfy. Axgreat debt had been pile- -up in the Process. Should not xfie colonies, who had reaped thxhief benefit, bear part o the cost? They had themselves Incurred delbts, no doubt, in the strugould vety gle; and their assemblies likely profess themselves 'willing to vote what they could should his majesty, call upon them and press them. Rut an adequate and orderly system of taxation could not.be wrought out! by the separate measures of a dozen petty legislatures; twere best the taxation should be direct and by parliament, whose authority, surely, no man outside turbulent Boston would be mad enough seriously to question . 'bur-dehsom- OPt-ounselor- . . ht -- e e - . ! i i . V ;'". ! - A - . . ! . - j j ? j j ,.J-- t his . . I ! i.1 . olt were-eve- ! at-th- j ! j : . jir ! i L for.Uie-Berxanta-w- j tnso-sr-o- rt - ! : '4 ir i f j J' v S' J: H :V Y Trouble May Be Avoided if Manure la 'Not Allowed to Accumulate and Urine Is Drained. (By PR H. PRESTON KOSKINsUnK verslt Farm, t. JP.aul.) . Scratches, also called crackeS'heela or 'mud fevbr, can be prevehtedby careful stable management Cases are rarely met with in well kept barns, but are often seen in dirty, poorly drained stables. Dryness and cleanliness of tjie floor of. the Btall are the two most important factors in thajrevention of scratches. Horses should not be allowed 'to stand in piles of manure and decom. posing . urine, Tbese Jrritate and Jn-of fold thoanklo the in the skin flame Just below the fetlock. The skin then becomes thickened, due to the Inflammation and breaks or cracks in it appear and it allowed to go untreated the condition grows gradually worse. The affected area grows larger, th cracks become deeper ahd the animal is In an unsightly and painful condl-tlon. Owners of horses can ' prevent th ftouHTirtK majorUy if.'"casSlT by doing two things. Do not allow manure to accumulate behind your horses, so and see that ypur stalls-arthat the urine will drain May. promptly If our horses show any tendency to ward the condition ap ply a small amount of carbollzed vaseline, benzoinated lard, .or zinc oxide ointment, well rubbed into the remedies will soften the skin and protect it from e . . . . ' , r . con-struct- ed - external moisture And irritating substances. During wet weather or when the roads and streets are nuddy or slushy, extra precaution should ba taken to prevent the condition. Do not washf cracked heels, as water and rubbing only aggravate the condition ' BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF LIME Substance Improves Sandy Soils by Making Them More Compact and Retentive of Mclsture. One of the Best Bunches. ; ' (Py B. H. HITE.) Nothing in agricultural science practice may be mentioned with more assurance than the beneficial effect of 'lime on easily puddled stiff clay soils. This is so nearly a matter of common knowledge, thevwonder-,is-. that anyone will worry along with 6uch soils yeat after year, and even from one genenu tion to another, while the possible Increase In yield in a single year will often pay for the necessary lime. Lime may Improve loose sandy soils by making them more compact and more retentive of moisture. For this purpose some form of carbonate pi lime is usually recommended, and ip much smaller quantities than for clay soils. Clay soils will stand more lima ; - nose to set thtv coloinea agog, and had a reputation for deep tn Amarica or resist every body infjnkirig'w'hlch tiit'y had beeu at some sibod between and amaxmnt BE anger (TO CONTINUED.) pains to deserve. to see their people in danger to be A rural society naves excitement, so put upon". Rose Culture In Bulgaria. and can get it very simply by such The and of threat the pressure White and rkd roses are grown, the practices. There is always leisure to French power upon the frontiers had former being easier to cultivate, but sleep afterwards, even though your ful always, made tbe colonies-thougdinner rmfeln the middle giving ot1 aboul fialf as tnuch oir bf day. po long as lt laste'a. of thell deiwnd-encan .Inferior quality: The individual and thercfsxgt)or"a8on you should Mount Vernon Irvthe Old Days upon England for succor and de- growers distil their own oil. Twelve be thirsty If you have been since daywell In hand, .and he- could take his fense should there come a time of to fifteen kilos of roses are distilled break In the saddle. , wholesome with 60 kilos of water until 12 pleasures both handsome- need. Not a Hard Drinker, Once and again often Enough 'to kilos of distillate are obtained a and free heart. xMn ly retght To ride hard and to drfiik hard There 'was little that w as debonair keep them sensible bow they must to ten such lots are then united, ahd seemed to go together In Virginia as about the disciplined and masterful 'stand or fall, succeed or fail, with the redistilled into long necked flasks. In Inevitably as the fhvmes In a song. w h I hThe cn s e p ara t e s on standing. Tri riiniinbiiril Jrtiif mi had taken part with the king s troops To produce one kilo of oil requires know self gift4: ledjie, the fox over the rough fields arid; 8olf , thne alone load lift out of England in some clumsy stroke 3,00u kilos of roses of 1,200,000 flowthrough the dense thickets. If, Wash-- to 0!nm ,h8e The roses are gathered In the And because or other against a French stronghold ers. power. sovereign ington drank only small beer or cider In the north or a Spanish fortress in early, morning and distilled the same follo 'is to were riglvt right right, and a couple of glasses of Madeira at the south; and now at last they had day. The pure oil from the various wisdom in the, scorn of consequence. dinner, it was no doubt because he Hut he took heed of his life very gone with English trops into the field districts shows variations in odor and bad found his quick blood tonic and was matured by pleas- in a national cause. Provincials and physical properties, and is therefore enough, and had set himself a hard generally, no less than hv duty done, ure lie redcoats had joined for a final grapple skillfully blended by the distributing regimen as a soldier w ith the'Erdfich, to settle once and for houses before' sale. Adulteration la a in of cards Um'l almost any lie did mot scruple to supply drnk who should be owners and masters very largely- - carried bn"by the peasall his stakes comlan pajd. upon enough for the thirstiest gathering on the coveted continent. . ants, who use ginger grass oil, palma I when he presented himself, to the vot- the rubber like every other wellconrosa oil, geranium oil, etc. The proNo man dueled his of Longer Dependent. century. ers of the countryside as a candidate duction for 1910 was 3,118 kilos. The The had been issue decisive. a Good the Hy Horse Race. "A hogsEnjoyed for the house of burgesses lie did hot .find Annjpolis, or elen summer 3f 1760 Washington ',couid Pharmaceutical Era.head and a barrel of punch, thirty-- ' w. rite. ils. kiusmaiidiv-Engl- a nd t hat t five gallons of w ineforly-throgax.1HhiladelphilaXoo.dar-.a,wa- y so were Some Old Beliefs., thoroughly Red drubbed for the pleasure of seeing a good of strong cider, and dinner for - round lithumbled and there remained beliefs persist tn the that The old xace of or a wasonjoy4ng .whai he clveerfully Jiis friends, do to rv'duce Panada from end to southern landsvand a tragfcomlc Inat and balls J11 the to first his for at evenings and theater, election, the, paid to the Hritistf power-stance reaches me from Venice. A "poll footed but a few. hundred votes ' shake the rustic dullness off of a too Hut the of At home. the Mrs. very constant. cockatoo, thoroughness kept by a Hritish fesldent ' all told.' 6tay Washing Mount Vertion saw as much com- .ton' 'enjoyed such outings, such, little success wrought a revolutioti in the as & pet. had been accustomed to pany and as constant merriment and fiings into the simple world of provin- - relations of the colonics to the mother promenade about the roof garden, It rid. them of their sense when the family went up there, But good cheer as any house in Virginia: eial fashion, as much as he did; nnd country. English fegiments one day recently it extended Its conand the master was no martinet' to his j they could not sit waiting all the year pf dependence. guests, even though tley"came u jo n for'the short season at Williamsburg, j'had mustered their thousands, no stitutional to a neighbor's roof, and Doctor l,aurle , A young man at onceso handsome, doubtt upen the battlefields of the was promptly shot by. him. He subseprofessional errands came here. I may add, drunk, says so famous, and so punctilious in 'point ''ar In order that the colonies might quently offered as & complete explanaO'uiet diary, without was comment, of dross as Colonel Washington' could t? lree ,0 fnissess the continent, and tion The plea that he thought-I' an ow'l and that doctor come had the . though very upon young baby In his household. Now, to, attend Mrs. Ntashington. , summons st dents of ancient Greek and .Roman and was next morning suffered to use augury know that the perchjng of an No a for relief. his lancet doubt her owl oh the! roof foreboded death to when and fellow not to. be.. ... sober, w , .good 1 -; desire... .Mf.statnre-the r n n'n ilb s& MprfvrM-bad-A-- Tt lightly chided when drunk, like many dress), are all is six rather JeetTotborwise charge screech slender miljtia how strong they a"gatlanf'hOTSPmAff'";And" gentleman in Put be was careful the presence of regulars. The"yhad who jolfted the meet of the country, than corpulent. side hospjUable place to follow the material, the color and the fit almost everywhere borne - do equal when the hunting was should be of the beet and most taste- - part in the fighting, and, fahkrand file, hounds the No Case tor Alarm. .. good If I refuse you, will you do any Z. fulwndJhat very elegant stuffs sobld 'they had lefts with a keen resentment Fox Hunting Winter and Summer, be. provided from tver the sea for Mrs the Open contempt Mor their rude thing tash?'V '5. ; 4- children, and very ; equipment and rustic discipline which Thebe was fox hnn'ing wintdr anf Wash jngton'and Nothing faew .r than propose to d ouL ,b.jt. tLe substantial1 were too many arrcgaut officers and uimrift in season that Wallaby grl. It w as a tossup was njst lir the frosty days of J.to be in attendance ,upon the house-- j lent men ampng the regulars had between you ji the first place,', In shown.' They knew that they had fact." .muary and 'February, whethe year bold a livery of white and scarlet x 'Twas a point of pride (with Vlrgirv proved themselves the equals of any And then the thermoinker dropped Ians to .know how to dresa, both well man in the king's pay in the fighting. twjntyxdegrees. 'j i s .i' of-th- j TO PREVENT CRACKE5 HEELS . 't a year er twb ln advance by the raislng of some thoroughly tilled crop, using as much manure as possible in the process. Late,' deep, fall plowing Ispreferable, turning nder a thick covering of manure. In the xprlng,- - when the frost is out of the ground, plow furrows from six to ten inches deep and four feet apart.: If the soil is not of the best quality two or three inches of manure should i,e piacey in the bottom of each trench and on this add a couple of inches of Then place the plantg ln looge go1 the trench three or four feet apart. Cover with three Inches of earth, it nbt, being well to cover deeper, as It takesli long for the young shoots to" push theitway through. As the shoots the earth can be filled grow the rest In around them by after cultivation. WTien filled in, the Crowns of the Manure Spreader With Lime Hood. plants should be about six inches below the surface of the ground,, for if and, for almost every purpose, require pianted much less the roots . win push more lime than sandy soils. The im-- ' . up to the surface and Interfere with provement of sandy soils will often be . the cultivation, much greater If the lime is applied to it a' green crop turned under. Lima hastens' the conversion of th vegeTWO ROOJSYSTEMS OF CORN table matter into humus, and this with ' s to fill the open spaewa tho Prunes Feeding between the sand grains. It la claimed Dsep Cultivation Branches and Lesseha Ability to by those who have given much attenTake Up Plant Food. tion to light sandy soils that there are no other types of soils that will r A knowledge et the root systems of spond quite so readily to liming, procorn points out the kind of cultiva- vided .the necessary vegetable tion to be 'practiced. "'Tfiefe-are two is supplied. . f systems, the primary' and the secondary, says the Breeders Gazette, The LIME REQUIRED FOR ONIONS primary roots are- - the fine, fibrpus roots, which almost completely fill the top two feet of soil, crossing each oth- Soil Is Made Looser and Therefore More Productive Success At- er ln the rows after the crop is half tributed to Substance. these feeding roots, lessens .the abilMuch of my success tn growing big ity of the plant to take up plant food onions, many specimens weighing a and moisture and results in the loss of and a half apiece, I attribute to pound considerable water from the soil free application of lime to the land a through evaporation. Deep preparation of the soli before planting and in spring. Bays the Farm and Fireshallow cultivation afterward is high- side. Likewise, I believe that similar desirable.- - The day of plowing' applications, just before sowing the ly seed of the Portugal onion early la The corn crop Is gone. .,-e helped me to get a The secondary roots are the tough, August-havfine stand and growth, fibrous roots usually eltending from I have used manures fight along,, one of the lower nodes on the stalk after year. The land is rich. The year Into the soil. The sole 'purpose' of fine and almost spontaneous growth these seems to be to act as braces lor of clover on any patch that la left the plant to have hold It upright to itself for 'wouldTiardly show that there is any need of lime. , Yet, Wheat, Rye and Barley." owning perhaps to faulty drainage, (th Wlieat and rye have about the eaflie land often turns up rather soggy, with composition, although, wheat is some close texture. Lime seems to make what richer In protein. Rye is ln gen- it closer, and. therefore tnore produce eral tougher and haader .to grind. tlve. , Doth are quite digestible, but less so than corn, on account of the larger Fighting Stock Lice. percentage of hull. When they can When treating cattle or othei dobe had at about the price of cofn they mestic "animals for lice, bear in mind may profitably form a part of some that it is to clean just as'necessary rations. They, are fed more satisfac- up and disinfect the as t stables, torily w nen ground than when w hole. treat the affected aolmali. crTl L. ' Harley seems to rank between wheat or lice on xaitler advises Dr. Rey and It la not used very extern nolds, dust Persian insect powder sively as a stock Tood in the east, over the backs and or "Jbnish rumps; except when the1 quality is too poor the necks and backs daily; using a, to1 permit its use for malting pu- little kerosene on a stiff brush not rposes', gh kerosene- te. wet thehalr or la-'- " jure the rkin. Avoid Kicking. Dont go behind a horsed or cow Transplanting to Open. without speaking. Neglk-- t to do this Harden off all 'plants before setrlng may .cause fright and the most do- from the house or hotbed to the Open cile animal cannot be blamed for kickground This is done by gradually ing under such circumstances. he amount of water, and giv-- . ing1 more air. It causes the plant to ' Comfortable Coops. partly ripen up its wood, and It is . The coop for hens and chicks thus better able to stand the change should be . well ventilated,- - easy tp to climatic conditions outside. Plaota and of sufficient proortiona to properly hardened off have clean, duU ' nsure comfort. urplijSh color and firia wooL v JL should be worked well-rotte- d - well-rotte- d . - -- -- Time-help- ' - , . au - '' V , . K |